Wire fence.



' No.-790,59v. PATENTED MAY 23, 1905.;

' B. P. SHELLABERGER.

WIRE FENCE. v APPLICATION FILED JAN. 30, 1905 UNITED STATES Patented May 23, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,597, dated May 23, 1905.

Application filed January 30, 1905. Serial No. 243,328.

To all whowt 211; may concern/.-

Be itknown that I, EDWARD F. SHELLABER- GER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dekalb, in the county of Dekalb and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide a wire-fence fabric formed of single strands of wireand so constructed that short lengths of wire may, if preferred, be utilized to form transverse stay-wires or pickets.

A further object of the invention is to provide a construction which may be cheaply and rapidly manufactured by the use of comparatively simple mechanism.

A further object of the invention is to provide a form of knot which provides projecting ends which may be utilized as barbs, if desired. I

To the above ends the invention consists in the matters hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed .out in the appended claims. I

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a section of, fabric embodying one form of the invention. Fig. 2 shows the intersecting portions of one of the knots in the first stage of formation. Fig. 3 shows the same in the second stage. Fig. 4 shows the finished knot. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 correspond, respectively, to Figs. 2, 3, and 4 and show a modified construction.

' In making the fabric of my invention I provide a machine by means of which a plurality of longitudinal wires 1 are supported in parallel relation at a definite distance apart and by means of suitable mechanism form in said longitudinal wires at laterally opposite points open coils or loops 2. These loops are each formed of a single turn of the wire, as shown clearly in Fig. 2,. In making the construction of Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, I insert short sections of wire 3 3 through these loops to form the cross stays, each section being slightly longer than the distance between the wires the latter are drawn taut and with sufiicient force to draw down the loops 2 so that they snugly embrace the intertwisted portions of the stay-wires and form compact knots as shown clearly in Fig. 4.

In the modification shown in Fig. 5 the pickets or cross-wires are formed of single pieces extending the full width of the fabric instead of short lengths. In this construction each cross-wire is provided at its point of intersection with its longitudinal wires with a double-returned or S-shaped bend, forming two portions 6 6', and the cross-wires are so adjusted to the longitudinal wires that the portion of each coil 2 lies in the end of one of the bends, as 6, while the other projects within and through the coil. The projecting portions 6 are then severally wrapped around the overlapping portions of the coils 2, as shown in Fig. 6, and the longitudinal wires subsequently drawn down taut, so as to close wires at the points of intersection being passed through the loops of the longitudinal wires and coiled outwardly around the latter.

2. A wire-fence fabric comprising a plurality of longitudinal wires and a plurality of cross-Wires, the longitudinal Wires being propoints Where the oppositely-extending porvided at the points of intersection with the tions of the longitudinal wires overlap each cross-wires With loops each formed by a sinother.

gle turn or coil of the Wire, and the cross- EDWARD F. SHELLABERGER. 5 Wires atthe points of intersectionbeing passed Witnesses:

through the loops of the longitudinal wires ALBERT H. GRAVES,

and coiled outwardly around the latter at the FREDERICK O. GooDWIN. 

